Biloxi Daily Herald (Newspaper) - January 7, 1924, Biloxi, Mississippi tu Vi the New Officers in the of Their ral A BY y fp m MONDAY AFTERNOON 7. 12-1 ASSOCIATED COUNTY OFFICERS TAKE THEIR OATH OF Made Former Director oi Veterans Bureau Say His Was to 7.Chaws Charles R. Forbes ci tiie Bureau was a leading in an conspiracy lo the made by Fehn F. New penerai ir. lus report te the Serate tais has been by testimony by evidence by the corroborative effects circumstances that fraud ami existed in tLo conspiracy to which Forbes vas charged by the organization with a was having for tae award by director contractors of contracts for of Others as parties were- C. B. Hurley f and J. V. a St. Louis contractor the hue Black of and Mortimer of the chief against After evidence as to ospitai contracts and other of the General ( that investigation y the department of justice ful lowing eads developed by this investigation botila furnish other instances of transactions negotiated by orbes and others in the newly elected Harrison officers Eustis chancery A. J. ' circuit Flo ria n Andrew and Fred are holding having been re- j retiring are Sheriff Jos. W. j County Superintendent R. V. i and four who C. Batton from heat 1. C. I. beat 2, C. B. beat 3. ami beat 4. Irina Mr. engage in the scoured an interest in tile organised Hardware Gulfport and will tace and FOI SPEAKER SVK SEVERE COLD LIST in real If supervisor from his profession as practicing in the Harrison j rt Broadus will pursue his interests and may take some other work in his M. LK has eight years as until from his Mr. in connection BT of the Legislature Begin in Connection With House Will Mill less Assured of Kall Thermometer Started a Downward Saturday Registered as Low as 12. j ime in i p the Hardware This will in business at the old in Mr. Havens will also look after his urai V. has established a organization for school supervisor of hi at and Luther W. supplies - and is He di also conduct a J. Jos. W. A. C. of Frank 11. H. Taylor beat 1. probably his anal of Nat affr eight years ton and of Biloxi as ir his J. and Mr. Adam each served four of a speaker of the House vear of the incoming officers winds made the streets of oath of office morning of pedestrians but d their bonds the he officers who did not hold over are Ik F. J. county supervisor of beat 1 supervisor of beat E. J. beat L. F. Jan. 7.The 1924 7.Deelar-o the Mississippi Legislature will not ing .be wonld nc t invest mili heve d rae control W. Tai the peak of the cohl wave passing eastward to the and with the wind at noon today coming from the the People of the Mississippi Coast New Edwards Royal hotel and friends of men suggested for the speakership were for There nine men suggested for the speakership but today two of them advised the writer they would request their not to their names in ' These were Walter of Bolivar county and N. E. are beginning their third It i has understood will sunport Thomas as his W l - Bailey of who also is beginning his third term in the In the last Legislature he was chairman of the appropriations S. candidate for governor in the last state Jan. 7. 7. ww he new senate already - ' of and than Tic tiie Senate will the Friday to fili v death of prank h unusual delay in tic Legislature down to the actual fore it ti is to be to Gi vernor message a ti ath of I tic e after I. retiring supervisor of t es and Dessie 11. an office in the 1 t Continued on Fourth JAM ENG Fleeing the northern 17<".'J negroes passed through Kentucky bound for Dixie Rail PICTURE IN signal honor to be paid Lady conservative member of the House of Viscount Astor announced a painting is to in. ir - 111., to Fulton for commemorating themselves in his The outright equip the l: .i r rim and thousands of acres of territory are in Sou till and Central the damage done by Mississippi when the in the him control the not his to water pines and line fixtures excessive 1 irom Che G. M. cc N. Hamilton Brothers uwd up pending the received cision tae interstate several hundred Commission protests in the eerie by Arkansas The that their calls from the tent ion was Tatum freeze would number more man make atap Jine of it in his similar rush of work was and the public service the establishment of with its pledged increased already uu more than a by controlling the road he who served as speaker in the i additions to Legislatures is it is to working in the interest of a - Damage to industrial and Mr Conner is not drawing raw material from a. radius eal plants was held to a minimum by a member of the he has forty of equipment following in He insisted he would not interfere the hours of The S. Gore of one of the with I he Natchez route of the Ice and Coal Company has run in the race for the Central and maintained it continuously since Saturday Jan. 7.The .Id made his headquarters at would not be for that keeping water in circulation in throughout the Southern states at hotel and was in conference discontinue its route i I ' the Other power stations today to have spent its were the 1 interests leave enough United government securi ries to Least That is Indicated by Reports of Ebing at his David Class of Attala was established at the Hotel Heidelberg where his conferees to relieve the situation The jam was so great in some coaches the conductor could noi wedge in to collect and gave arrival of the first woman member of tiie House of Commons in the person of Lady the former Nancy Langhorne of The picture will he hung on the wail of the main staircase just below the main staircase iust below the place where Queen Elizabeth is men suggested for the The hearing adjourned and similar temperatures chief sufferers from the freezing mark were the farmers and fruit in reports received The this morning from the Florida hist districts of Long reporting early Battleship Breaks Mooring md Goes are A. of J. man Morgan gave counsel until and other points north of of and Others Attended Appropriate Services Conducted in Tent on West large tent erected on the church lot on West Howard which the S. Williams ligious campaign will be s dedicated with beginning at Extreme odd weather as large as irst The services were over by Rev. O. S. the Slain Street Methodist made an excellent he purpose of the am is anticipated a great of good to bo hese meetings will begin HABIT Patrons at Wolf's Kansas complained to proprietor because William Dorsey made peculiar whistling noise cooling his j TO % IROiN coffee after he had it in the He also was blowing Church oi Memphis and a on some of the other imposing Fatheree of W. Henley ruary to file briefs when Copiah and B. of Pike of the slate board will be sent to the interstate Commerce shoe experts were busy last miss ion at The 1100 and is the most extensive testimony taken in the history of the Chamber of Commerce and boards of trade from fifteen cities in four states protested against the sale to Morris told Dorsey to the an argument followed and I Jersey was removed to the There he tossed a brick through the window at who was still cleaning coffee off the Then Judge Kilroy askea Dorsey a It about it. feelings were Dorsey old fashioned and I like to drink my department commission will sail January 12 to investigate labor and other conditions in the Virgin my he v. as POISON TO WIFE HER persons escaped death from poison through according to Police N. who arrested Raoul sehte for sending candy filled poison to his She offered the candy to five other women and a child in tiie room when at 7 o'clock with a be lead by Otis song tuler lor Howard S. Preaching will at 30. They will continue three weeks of in which of the various churches of Biloxi and other Coast cities together witn thers will A representative of the Flying of was the package on a returns irom one m the to All and wanton ot cut failed to taste since the election oi 121, were not till But nine votes were the other voters being snowbound in their LETTERS letters by Abraham Lincoln to his secretary of the navy Gideon Wei brought each at Philadelphia Friday a public auction of Civil war In one relating the gunboat Lincoln to he confessed to removing the inside of the candy with a nail and substituting the He that he did not know that it was a deadly and hoped only to make his wife ill so that she would stop nagging him and feel more dependent upon COTTON REPORT PROGRAM OUTLINED Plans for simultaneous and more reports on cotton crop seeking to have Mixon and lien ley withdraw from the Last night tiie contest for the speakership apparently lay between Fatheree and Glass with Bailey in the Mr. Bailey's friends are predicting that he will at least be elected on the first ballot if not only man to be doubt expressed as to will be elected president of i the Senator M. P. L. Love Hattiesburg is regarded as certain | of No one else has been i nested as opposing of the members of the have arrived and are selecting ' Total Loss Damage to George B. j Contents Estimated of tine House of Representatives ami is scheduled to be post without to the ed himself as a committee of one on chief of and is establishing legislators in their The New doup bv 0? has been rushed to for the session and many of I ' January 1, 1924. indicated heavy loss ' m growing crops and in citrus The extent o damage cannot he estimated in dollars and cents until the warmer temperatures of the next few days soften the fibre of the plants cter was reported rising the temperature there had to reported weather last while Miami ex a degree temperature yes and early today tic 1 the blighting wilt of the At the least calculation the loss will climb into many thousands of vegetation and shrubs presenting a sickly and drooping appearance lowest mark reached on the coast by the thermometer during the prevalence of tiie cold wave probably few day wits Tom keeper at Ship reported a temperature of 12 degrees yesterday coldest in his 2S years of life on the Several thermometers in Gulfport recorded 13 and 14 The instruments used by the located on the east beach near the registered 2<J degrees at 6:45 o'clock IS degrees at 7 and 20 department reason to be pleased s in- Hu readings were to the citrus crop in Southern Florida was Jacksonville reported a temperature of 22 degrees this a temperature of 16 reached at 7 Thema vilie and Atlanta weatin r stations tola Georgians they may for something Eke weather at an a i; 23 AND r legislators have offered co-operated the of the opinion i maies ginning were agreed of the various churches that in making the campaign as one held Mr. Williams in A of talks were made by and prayers was a hich were closed by Dr. service was also participated in. ad by Mr. beginning at 7 there ill be a choir in embers of the different choirs of churches will The is large enough to a choir of 200 It. is that music wiE be cue of tractive features oi the tuple tho tent making it comfortable for josc in she should not go sky larking up Saturday at a conference between a for he Lieutenant Worden had odd him the To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Commissioners ' Report of fire department of the of for the year 102?,: Value buildings at Value of contents at risk 42.085.OD be easily boarded and in the dated August 23. said felt he would be defeated for hm by A letter in which he asked for a to cruise the Potomac and protect the brought $ Leads MacGruder in Circuit Jan. 7.,7. I. cf Columbus was by PKi otes in the race for judge in he 16th district today with small ' in three be heard W. W. has not of The is for the f judge to fill the unexpired term of late Judge T. 13. who died of the Congress cotton bloc Prominent Citizen of Pass Christian and representatives of the department Expresses Opposition to 2 of agriculture and the census chairman of the while the along tne ed bills would be dratted generally agreed on the need or providing for publication of the ' protection for the beach and ports at time place and there are many who differ as to the o two More frequent and ' type of protection lb ere are regular he would keep those who favor the sea wall while pointers more informed and there are others who believe that tho BORN IN POLICE FLIVVER would tend to eliminate losses by sloping beach will best meet the Curdes and his wife started The committee's Among those who oppose the sea wall for a hospital the but the car up in the hitter cold and they applied at a police station for in The ambulance was so tile police car of tic flivver varnay was pressed into but the car too slow for tke Before the hospital was reached baby was horn mother and child were safely placed under the care of the DEATH one of two negroes charged with murder and criminal connect ion with the week of Mrs. Latimer in her home in the to to contents 4.056.50 4,505.00 that three representatives idea is J. B. a leading citizen of the Southern Cotton Growers be of Pass who places himself J placed on the crop estimates board on record in the following has been agreed to by the department cation to The Daily Mr. ON LINKS of New dici suddenly on the Ormond Jan. 5, 1924. Editor Daily the sea of which tinn of the hody of Lieut. we hear much commander of the dirigible we are not on the has shown that ail his limbs were a protective wall would j broken and that he was dead temperature rose slowly throughout the reaching 42 degrees at 2 o'clock in the and falling until it passed 25 degrees at 8 The S o'clock temperature this morning was 20 in the mean passed the peak of high pressure at 7 o'clock Sunday with a reading of 30.64 It declined to 3().0'1 inches by S o'clock at to 30.52 indies this and 30.30 inches at noon by a fresh north which blew all of Saturday night and continued with diminishing force until Sunday the cold waive froze the shallow waters along the shores of Mississippi Sound to the thickness of half an and the extremely low tides of Sunday morning and revealed wide stretches of miked bordered with ice and dotted with frozen weather man promises a gradual softening of the but says that temperatures will remain below normal all He does not say whether frost will be at work again or whether the southerly with warmer will Jan. 7.Ex.iminn- Indications at of freezing temperature again Fire Department Calls Night and Last on on 12.000.00 number of 60; first aid calls 2, false 0; gas boat 2: grass 6: automobile 5; oat of town College 1. G. C. M. A. 1. Tin at eh Explosion Wrecked links Saturday while playing m a beautiful shore line in. he fell into the with John D. whom he had been playing occasional marches the last five They had just started in the first degree by a jury at Van Ark. He showed no emotion as he heard the death it would be a crime economically to build a it would mean bankruptcy to Harrison county to build a wall ten feet high stretching along our thirty miles of shore and you can imagine a show that the dirigible exploded and that her cars dashed downward with terrific the bodies of the crew being hurled the sides of the cars when they struck the initial destruction of our 7.Copiah JORDAN OF DIES J. 4K stf the home of his Mrs. ari Terrell in The body was nipped to where urial was in the family Mr. rdan leaves hit wife four Henry C. E. of and Mrs. Carl of ID had Jived this city for several years but two ago he went to CALENDAR TONIGHT a Ladies Benevolent 7:30. v Hook Lander 7 Meeting and parish Church of Howard 7 3. 7 Work Man From man Law of the 7 7 Circle 7:30. stern Star 7:30. Fee Clinic Biloxi 3. KILLS roe more fatalities in of the heavy snowfall throughout the Alpine region are reported at from the where a - parly of five aiders was struck by an KILL PRIEST The Belgian ligation r confirms the report of the slaying of the Belgian the Rev. Father Soenen and the sacking of tiie Catholic mission at near the Mongolian The bandits applied for medical aid the mission and then killed Father Soenen while was ministering to their according to legation always been from the hind ty will have no treasurer this The most recent The people considered the amendment Beach was primarily due to a to the constitution adopted in 1922 abolishing and no KAIL STRIKE ENDS The strike on the Cuba tying up line and tlm of was settled on compromise basis conferences in Full ' vice will be resumed at big to from the Havana of the president of the j thp 1 ' aUV<K "' from east of College ami | offered to run for the The pouring out on the the has never passed laws to fin washing out the sand j provide for the handling of moneys a shoulder or hank formed to resist tho Treasurer the incoming when destruction the bnaks here will hold dancerT of the road Had a con- i the money deposited with them by the wife Norman known | crete trough been built along the tax and take care of it just ring was di- south side of the road combining with as if the treasurer's office was in ' the curb and at intervals to it is determined by the volume of other concrete troughs A classified ad ordered five therefrom to the low tide tive days and accompanied by the It will lie noted that when the road ' cash secures two additional on Fourth tions but with the thermometer readings somewhat higher than last Miss Josie oi j weather stated this that the present weather has been the The government thermometer registered 14 degrees above zero at yesterday's lowest It went as far as 19 degrees for and Sunday were busy days lor the Gulfport fire At 10:30 o'clock u run was made to a grass fire on the east side of 7 o'clock a run was made to Kelly and 6th Streets to a woods Ne An alarm was turned in at o'clock at night on of a fire at 5ih Street an 42nd Tiie residence occupied by Theodore was destroyed by L was beyond the water limit and nothing be to save it by the Loss about morning at o'clock an alarm was turned in from 33rd Avenue and It was on account of a roof fire at the Paschal residence and was a small reef fire with lo a. m. department was to the of Mrs. Brown Meadows at 21st Avenue and 17th This was a small roof fire with about Box 35 was pulled at 11 a. m. It was on account of a roof fire at the residence of Newman who lives on Avenue near 17 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon a run was made to 2fth near 2'Hh Street to a. house by B. This was a root p. m. was call which was roof e Am a k slight 15 MB 3ACKT0 KlD FDR n Factions of the Women Klan In Pitched Jan. 7.Mr.. Maty of Alliance district the Women Auxiliary of the has been in charge of the Biloxi today is suffering from bureau for the past 20 Other resuit of a De La that the agreement would trouble on the Northern H WIFE GETS 2ND in Los Angeles from her second Victor motion picture Rodman was granted the decree on the grounds of to their lowest point in rose afternoon to 36 going down to 21 during the early evening and cren lower the here Saturday net rival factions of the women's 0? . sanitation which was finally by tiie woman was learned was said to Peen injured seriously in the It is understood that trouble was the outgrowth of a long standing fued between rival factions of tiie was one of tiie leaders of the AIR GROWTH OF N. O. HOMESTEAD The resources of homestead associations ill New Orleans increased 815, 0i0.000 Last year to paid stockholders about Britain's huge program of air * 000 in dividends ami enabled a of people to build and buy Orleans Elks will shortly begin the work of rebuilding and altering their home which was partially destroyed by fire in 1022. The contract calls for the expenditure ot 6200,000. said to exceed anything formulated during the has been drawn up by the Tho nation soon be ready to repel any attack from across the Labor is expected to approve the French airplane makers are selling planes to of Law at High School A. Joe Graham Chapter No. 121 and Council No. 52. WORK ON JEFFERSON HIGHWAY Up in the western parr of Natchitoches parish the Louisiana Highway is driving away at the completion of the hist link in the state's greatest Before spring the road will be open between New Orleans and Louisiana will be the first state of the en through which the Jefferson highway is routed from Winnepeg to New on Sixth Court Passes on Fees in Tax Jan. 7.Sheriffs in are entitled to five percent first aggregated taxes col- ' and not on the first ten collected for each special to a decision of the All Supreme Court today in affirming dians and case of Sheriff E. Wray Bolivar * 2 c. - e. f: vey's TU e resa t. a ee THE YEAR FROM YOUR Plana KIND THAT GULFPORT DISTRIBUTORS direction of is hereby that in guardianships pending iu the Chancery of Harrison where an account or an inventory is the same must be filed term of said which Jan. young on THIRD MONDAY men students of the Mississippi J College have signified their im en- Meet Hair With A I - cold Kid of growing to the epidemic of among giri citation will ail admini guardians so defaulting why they should not or failure if good will be held a m BAR of Harrison ENGINEER Jan. 7.Jess engineer of the Mississippi i Central train between Sumrall and 1024. at 10 oh died of acute purpose o e gestion Saturday in the cab of his for the January engine as his train was nearing five minutes prior to the engineer the v. ' of the and asked him to take the Messer died just I before train reached nor is indicated for the next 36 A tendency to Deputy j southerly winds developed at noon 4t
